This digitally knitted canopy uses photo-luminescent yarns to create a semi-shaded summer pavilion for visitors to NYC's MoMA PS1 gallery.

The fully automated aquaponics system grows lettuces, herbs and small fruits right in your kitchen.

The teen has been building the DIY microwave, hoping to solve many cooking problems with one device.

This crowd-funded design features a special honeycomb structure that is strong enough to be transformed into a stool or table -- yet remains lightweight and flexible enough to stay incognito on your bookshelf.

Our photo of the day comes from Sydney Harbour's Clifton Gardens.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you a global economic crisis, a gloomy real estate market, and an uncertain currency future, make a house out of shredded-up money.

We have been asking that question for a while and it keeps coming up.

Built using traditional and local techniques of construction, this distinctive structure sits on the edge of a national forest and a long-vanished lake.

Raw unfiltered honey is a very different product from the filtered honey sold in supermarkets. Educate yourself to know the differences and to know what you're really getting.

Conservation efforts, especially in places as renowned as the Galapagos, have something of a reputation. It's developers vs. protesters, consumers vs. conservationists, people

It changed my life but I can also recommend some changes

Raid other rooms for items that can help you cook more efficiently.

A NYC-based artist and programmer makes music out of pollution; listen to it here.

Formidable Vegetable Sound System strikes again, this time with their 'ecological electroswing' celebration of soil.

But there is a real question of how much one should pay for an artisanal shelf bracket.

And what's worse, going to the gym won't compensate for it.

Is that a cheap standing desk, or an expensive cardboard box? Hard to tell.

Because people gotta move.

The 2019 solstice falls on June 21 ... celebrate with a crash course in curiosities about the longest day of the year.

While many cities have programs that turn leftover Christmas Trees into mulch and wood chips, (in NYC they call it Mulchfest, and you can go home with a bag of mulch). But in recent years, other uses such as structural aquatic

Weak regulations mean an extra dose of toxic wastewater for some states, like Ohio.

One was recently installed at an Ohio university. Is this the message one wants to give to students there?

This is very smart marketing, and not a bad looking bike.

In which I argue that bike-friendliness should be measured by how well a town caters to its most practical, regular, and vulnerable of users, not tourists.

Nations met in Peru this month to discuss solutions to climate change

New study says there's no safe level of exposure to organophosphates, a main ingredient in pesticides.

More than just a typical aurora, researchers have now figured what powers this stunning lightshow and where it comes from.

Current events could lead to another oil embargo by Saudi Arabia, and it could be 1973 all over again

We matured our cities around the needs to cars. Now it's time to mature our streets around human, not machine, needs. We are all pedestrians.

A wholphin? A dolphale? Whatever you call it, the first known hybrid between a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin is a wonder.

Can a rare metal travel without a passport?

I'm not quite sure, and the more I look, the more confused I get.

A really interesting housing project and a look back at Canadian Thanksgiving

It takes the controversial stance that more fish doesn't necessarily mean better fish.

Mandatory solar panels are not the biggest deal here.

Instead of an exciting adventure, we got a road not taken.

The device is so thin it could be woven into fabric without changing the feel of it.

This aeroponic indoor gardening system from the Italian startup Hexagro is modular, scalable, and automated.

From cookies and cake mix to hair care and toothpaste, here's where to look for sneaky, eco-catastrophic palm oil.

For those of us who actually live in rustic homes in cold climates, the household items that define the 'hygge' decorating trend are a matter of survival.

At the rate we’re killing them, we may soon see it firsthand.

Instead of turning sunlight into electricity, and then using that to power indoor lighting, Lucy redirects the daylight into rooms for effective natural illumination.

Do not mail them to the President.

They really didn't have a choice, and they insulated their bodies, not their houses.

It simply doesn't recognize that some e-bikes are just bikes with a boost, and is unfair to older or disabled riders, or long distance commuters.

It's a smart thermostat for hydronic heating systems and is not such a dumb idea.

Dutch designer Benjamin Vermeulen solves the problem of the missing nut or screw.

It's all over the news: IKEA does recall of MALM dressers for toppling over and killing children.

This prototypical house acts as an active interface between its inhabitants and the outside.

With the winter solstice association with death and rebirth – these historic events of December 21st take on new resonance.